The Gender War in U.S. Sport: Winners and Losers in News Coverage of Title IX

Hardin, Marie; Simpson, Scott; Whiteside, Erin; Garris, Kim

doi:10.1080/15205430701265737

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“…More recently, scholars have explored gender coverage to isolate predictors of women's portrayals in news coverage (see e.g., Armstrong, 2006;Hardin et al, 2007). Hardin et al focused on Title IX coverage and found that coverage of the topic was more negative when male sources were used, compared to the use of female sources.…”

Section: Media Representations Of Womenmentioning

confidence: 98%

A Global Trend

Armstrong¹,

Boyle²,

McLeod³

2012

Journalism Studies

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Social protest is truly a global phenomenon with recent examples including protests in Asia, North America, and the Middle East. This study investigates how gender representations in protest coverage differ not only based on characteristics of the protests but also location and other factors. Examining 220 newspaper stories from four global regions, a content analysis revealed that gender portrayals differ in part by the region of the world. Further, women were most likely to appear when the story was nonpolitical, the tactics were more peaceful, and when the disparity between male and female sources was lower. Implications for newspaper and gender research are discussed.

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Section: Media Representations Of Womenmentioning

confidence: 98%

A Global Trend

Armstrong¹,

Boyle²,

McLeod³

2012

Journalism Studies

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“…On June 21, 2012, espnW launched the "The Power of IX," a microsite that featured commemorative content on the legislation and its impact upon women in sports. While earlier media coverage of Title IX typically positioned the law as a site of conflict (Hardin et al, 2007), "The Power of IX" focused on women's stories in which they remembered the law and recounted its positive impact upon their lives. Roessner and Whiteside (2015) argued that through this site, "readers saw Title IX discourse move away from the battle-of-the-sexes rhetoric toward narratives celebrating women's accomplishments," which offered "new, progressive ways of understanding Title IX" (p. 589, emphasis original).…”

Section: Nine For Ix: Socially Conscious and Progressivementioning

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“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

Antunovic

Linden

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In 2013, ESPN launched a series of documentaries to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX. The Nine for IX documentaries tell stories of successful women in sport and tackle pertinent gender- and sex-related issues, promising to teach popular audiences about the untold histories of women’s sport. Because of the series’ place in ESPN’s marketing efforts to reach women, we consider the series as ideological work through which women’s sport history is constructed. Drawing on feminist sport scholarship, we argue that the Nine for IX films fall short of their promised socially conscious and educational potential. Instead of interrogating broader webs of power, the series overwhelmingly relies upon individualized, depoliticized, and postfeminist narratives that relegate efforts toward gender equality to the past. The series is, thus, a reflection of ESPN’s larger problems with representations of women’s sport.

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“…One line of thought that has emerged is that by elevating women into editorial and other power positions in the field of sports journalism, we might see more balanced coverage (Laucella et al, 2017). It is believed that women and men cover sports in different ways (Hardin, Simpson, Whiteside, & Garris, 2007). Evidence appears, at best, to be mixed regarding just what type of impact gender diversity might have at the highest levels of the field.…”

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He Said, She Said: An Exploration of Male and Female Print Sports Journalist Tweets, Sports Coverage, and Language Style

Abisaid

2019

Communication & Sport

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The professional role and responsibilities for sports journalists have evolved to now include using social media. In this study, we explore how male and female print sports journalists use Twitter to communicate with their followers about sports. Relying on previous research showing disparities in sports coverage and gender as well as assertive and affiliative language theory, we employ a content analysis of tweets from 57 sports journalists ( N = 4,897). We find that male and female sports journalists tweet at statistically the same rate, but male sports journalists are more likely to tweet about sports than female sports journalists, less likely to tweet about women sports and athletes, and more likely to use assertive language in their tweets. Findings are discussed with suggestions for future research.

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The Gender War in U.S. Sport: Winners and Losers in News Coverage of Title IX

Cited by 38 publications

References 24 publications

A Global Trend

A Global Trend

“Powerful Lessons” in Women’s Sport: ESPN’s Nine for IX Series

He Said, She Said: An Exploration of Male and Female Print Sports Journalist Tweets, Sports Coverage, and Language Style

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